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Quotes About Perseverance

It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.
~ Vince Lombardi
Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
~ Vince Lombardi
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.
~ Vince Lombardi
Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.
~ Vince Lombardi
Winning is not a sometime thing it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
~ Vince Lombardi
There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.
~ Vince Lombardi
A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.
~ Vince Lombardi
After the cheers have died down and the stadium is empty, after the headlines have been written and after you are back in the quiet of your room and the championship ring has been placed on the dresser and all the pomp and fanfare has faded, the enduring things that are left are the dedication to excellence, the dedication to victory, and the dedication to doing with our lives the very best we can to make the world a better place in which to live.
~ Vince Lombardi
All right Mister, let me tell you what winning means... you're willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else.
~ Vince Lombardi
But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body. If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second.
~ Vince Lombardi
Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.
~ Vince Lombardi
Mental toughness is essential to success.
~ Vince Lombardi
Nobody is hurt. Hurt is in the mind. If you can walk, you can run.
~ Vince Lombardi
Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
~ Vince Lombardi
Once a man has made a commitment to a way of life, he puts the greatest strength in the world behind him. It's something we call heart power. Once a man has made his commitment, nothing will stop him short of success.
~ Vince Lombardi
Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.
~ Vince Lombardi
Our greatest glory was not in never falling, but in rising when we fell.
~ Vince Lombardi
The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.
~ Vince Lombardi
The object is to win fairly, squarely, by the rules - but to win. And in truth, I've never known a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline.
~ Vince Lombardi
The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.
~ Vince Lombardi
The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel, are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.
~ Vince Lombardi
This is a football.
~ Vince Lombardi
Those who have invested the most are the last to surrender.
~ Vince Lombardi
Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory lasts forever.
~ Unknown